About EdgeBSD

Wiki page by khorben on 21/08/2013 02:28:48
--- /var/www/www.edgebsd.org/wiki/About EdgeBSD	2014/09/09 23:28:03	1.2
+++ /var/www/www.edgebsd.org/wiki/About EdgeBSD	2014/09/09 23:39:28	1.3
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
-<p>EdgeBSD is a new member of the family of BSD-based Operating Systems, starting development with the current NetBSD codebase with Git for Source Code Management. Package management is based on pkgsrc.</p>
+<p>EdgeBSD is a new member of the family of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD" title="Berkeley Software Distribution">BSD-based</a> Operating Systems, starting development with the current <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/" title="The NetBSD Project">NetBSD</a> codebase with <a href="http://git-scm.com/" title="Git">Git</a> for Source Code Management. Package management is based on <a href="http://pkgsrc.org/" title="pkgsrc">pkgsrc</a>.</p>

 <h3>Objectives</h3>
-<p>The primary goal of EdgeBSD is to provide an ambitious environment for working as a bigger community together on the NetBSD Project. This will be achieved thanks to a more modern development infrastructure, while taking a more aggressive stance on integrating and enabling features.</p>
-<p>Ultimately, EdgeBSD should be just as fun and attractive as a Research &amp; Development platform while delivering a modern, robust, and industrial-grade system for all ranges of computer devices.</p>
+<p>The primary goal of EdgeBSD is to provide an ambitious environment for working as a bigger <a href="/edgebsd/wiki/22/community" title="The EdgeBSD Community">community</a> together on the NetBSD Project. This is being achieved thanks to a modern development infrastructure, while taking an aggressive stance on integrating and enabling features.</p>
+<p>Ultimately, EdgeBSD aims at being fun and attractive as a Research &amp; Development platform while remaining a modern, robust, and industrial-grade system for all ranges of computer devices.</p>

 <h3>First steps</h3>
-<p>The preliminary plan looks as follows:</p>
+<p>The preliminary plan is as follows:</p>
 <ul>
-<li>existing features will simply be enabled and used by default (SSP, ASLR, modular kernels and Xorg, full disk encryption, securelevel...);</li>
-<li>a release with these features will be delivered, based on the latest stable NetBSD branch.</li>
+<li>existing features are enabled and used by default (SSP, ASLR, modular kernel, modular Xorg, full disk encryption, securelevel...)</li>
+<li>a release with these features is available continuously, based on the latest stable NetBSD branch.</li>
 </ul>
-<p>Every meaningful contribution will be proposed back to the NetBSD Project.</p>
+<p>Every meaningful contribution is to be proposed back to the NetBSD Project once sufficiently tested.</p>

 <h3>Longer term</h3>
 <p>EdgeBSD should be as attractive a platform as possible, and use the advantages of its existing codebase to experiment on being a modern, safe, and portable Operating System. This vision currently includes:</p>
 <ul>
-<li>advanced facilities for developers (patch management, build environments...);</li>
-<li>re-organization of the base system (Git submodules, packages...);</li>
+<li>advanced facilities for developers (patch management, build environments...)</li>
+<li>re-organization of the base system (Git submodules, packages...)</li>
 <li>a graphical installer;</li>
-<li>modern package management (signed packages...);</li>
-<li>alternatives to Xorg and default desktop environment;</li>
+<li>modern package management (signed packages...)</li>
+<li>alternatives to Xorg and default desktop environment based on the <a href="http://www.defora.org/" title="The DeforaOS Project">DeforaOS desktop</a>;</li>
 <li>ready-to-flash images for embedded devices;</li>
-<li>virtualization of most components with the RUMP anykernel.</li>
+<li>virtualization of components with the <a href="https://wiki.netbsd.org/rumpkernel/" title="rumpkernel">RUMP anykernel</a>.</li>
 </ul>

 <h3>Community</h3>
-<p>There are <a href="/edgebsd/wiki/22/community">many ways to follow and join</a> the project online.</p>
+<p>There are <a href="/edgebsd/wiki/22/community" title="The EdgeBSD Community">many ways to follow and join</a> the project online.</p>

 <h3>Hosting</h3>
 <p>The EdgeBSD Project is primarily hosted in Germany, Europe.</p>
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